Songbyrd PresentsUpstairs, All Ages

Kelli Frances Corrado is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She is a quilt of memories and mysticism. Growing up in Chicago, she
would sneak out during school nights to see hip hop shows and spend weekends learning prayer rituals taught by a Romani Czech grandmother.

This set a unique musical foundation. Leading her to pursue opera training, string arranger, beat making and classical poetry.Giving voice
to her spiritual beliefs. She has lived many lives before putting her heart in song: social worker, student, tap dancer, teacher, wanderer.
Living in the Black Forest, London and by the sea. These patches of experience bring together a musical broth of magical realism and urban
life ripe of lucid dreams and superstition.

Absolutely Not are absolutely fab. After a few promising EPs of glammed-up garage-punk, the Chicago band is set to release Errors, its spastic
and ridiculously fun debut full-length. This is a punk record dialed into an alien frequency with a heavy production that makes the spare
instrumentation (guitar, keyboards, drums) sound like a spaceship crashing into Earth.

Absolutely Not draws on the perverse punk of Blood Brothers and Devo's overcaffeinated pop sensibility for the new track, "Strictly Top." It's
a campy two-minute crunch, but there are some compact songwriting chops at play from guitarist and vocalist Donnie Moore. The bouncy riff
and squiggly keyboard don't overstay their snotty welcome, and the song's soaring shout-along, "You got a problem with me?" is wink and
a middle finger.